"I heard you were in to guns and I wanted to show you these" He hands me a .30 carbine. "That was mine in the army"

"Very cool, where'd you carry it?"

"Germany, Belgium, France.... pretty much the whole war..."

Was cool to have my hands on a bit of history like that....

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I Alone know the true power of 106

You never know, the guy fixing your computer, the guy you get a hotel room from, the guy triming your tree, delivering your concrete, driving your bus, or even selling you lingere.....could be an Arfcommer

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I Alone know the true power of 106

You never know, the guy fixing your computer, the guy you get a hotel room from, the guy triming your tree, delivering your concrete, driving your bus, or even selling you lingere.....could be an Arfcommer

"Just miles from your doorstep, hundreds of men are given weapons and trained to kill. The government calls it the Army, but a more alarmist name would be: The Killbot Factory."-Kent Brockman.The normal make a living, the deranged make History

In other words, a very early M1 Carbine.The caveat--the serial number has been changed at some point in its life. Most likely it was re-imported from an overseas depot. Usually the serial numbers are all numeric in a ####### format. Mine's X###.

There's some issues of failure to feed / extract nowadays, so she's pretty much a safe queen. I did bring it to the GF shoot that featured Snoop Dogg and special guest Christina Aguilera, however.